Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] he have taken " in BNC.

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1 It was so long since he had taken an interest in anything .
2 That James would attempt to recover his lost throne seemed inevitable , especially since he had taken refuge in France .
3 He first noticed a young boy early one summer , about a year or so after he had taken over Entwhistle Halt .
4 There can be little doubt for instance that the doubtfulness or downright hostility felt towards Eliot by some Americans , particularly in recent decades , derives from the sort of American Eliot was — and remained , long after he had taken British citizenship .
5 ( 4 ) An applicant shall not be treated as having failed to comply with subsection ( 2 ) ( b ) above if the notice is , without any fault or intention of his , removed , obscured or defaced before the first day of the meeting of the board at which the application is to be considered , so long as he has taken reasonable steps for its protection and , if need be , replacement .
6 Behaving like an infatuated teenager , just because he 's taken me out , and kissed me a few times ?
7 Soon after he had taken me under his ample wing he had remarked , ‘ Think of me as the Brahmin of the Banal !
8 The record price for a suit was one hundred pounds , and that was brand new , passed on by a lunatic who changed his mind as soon as he had taken it home .
9 They erm , they er there was a lamb nibbling that yesterday and he 's taken off , so the bits at the top and the bottom have no connection any longer so
10 There 'd been neither sight nor sound of James since that fateful day and no doubt he had forgotten her as quickly as he had taken her , but he must be told there was going to be a child .
11 Any smallholder would do well to join a local ATB group , particularly if he has taken on his own farm with relatively little experience .
12 This was principally because he had taken up fire-watching duties there , and once or twice a week he would go up on the roof : he would have heard the sound of the aircraft , and the bursts of shrapnel from the anti-aircraft guns , while all the time scrutinizing the " blacked out " city for the evidence of fires .
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